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As part of Lambeth’s commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day we will be in discussion with Anna Blasiak, author of Lili – a book-length conversation with Lili Stern-Pohlmann.
This is the story of Lili Pohlmann's incredible childhood and survival as a Jewish girl during the Second World War in Lwów (Lemberg under German occupation, now Lviv in the Ukraine).
After the war Lili came to London in the first of three transports of Jewish children from Poland. She arrived in the British capital on her sixteenth birthday. She still lives in London.
Anna’s book focuses on Lili's childhood, wartime experiences, her arrival in London and years shortly after the war. These experiences are accompanied by historical commentaries, as well as more personal pieces from Anna Blasiak, framing and contrasting Lili's story and experiences with those of a different generation, growing up years after the war in Poland, a place where the vanished Jews left a painful, gaping hole.
Join Anna to discuss Poland and the Holocaust through the eyes of one survivor.
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